I recommend listening to 'A People's History' as an audiobook. Howard Zinn sets out with the stated objective of narrating a dissident's history. With this, he

I recommend listening to 'A People's History' as an audiobook. Howard Zinn sets out with the stated objective of narrating a dissident's history. With this, he absolves himself from narrating a completely objective history, which I suspect he sees as an impossible task. You may not agree with many of his assumptions (I don't), but you will gain from the experience.